Also, beginning February 1, I’m dedicating the whole month to WordPress Plugins. I’ll be talking about some of my favorites and some of your favorite WordPress Plugins. I’ll be talking to WordPress Plugin authors about how to write, promote, and distribute their WordPress Plugins, and cover a wide variety of different types of WordPress Plugins to add to your WordPress blogs.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, even when that opinion doesn’t measure up to facts. Fact is, article series have been around for several hundred years, also known as “serials”. They are very popular and excellent for building an audience. That’s not an opinion but fact.

engtech, I will want to know how you create the asides and the fabulous feed digest, so please let me know. Those are other great WordPress.com blings that I haven’t had time to figure out. You’re becoming at expert at WordPress.com blog blings. 😉

The asides are my del.icio.us “daily link post” with custom CSS. I will write a tutorial.

The digest is done by running a perl script on the Exported XML database (same way I do my site map and my tag cloud). I’m planning on releasing it to the public at some point once I’ve cleaned it up enough that it doesn’t look like a complete hack.

Yes, the blog bling I will showcase here can be done in any blog, including WordPress.com and the full version of WordPress. But if you are using the full version of WordPress, why bother?

The same things can be done with CSS, which is another series coming up very soon. CSS won’t work with WordPress.com blogs, which makes adding blog bling very challenging, and in some cases, not possible.

For a look at some CSS bling (tip, tricks, gallery, and styles) that can be done on full version WordPress blogs, check out my series on CSS Experiments. The instructions are in the page source code for all to use, borrow, and experiment with themselves.

I am an author with my first book about to be published. I know little about blogging, but when my website comes up it should have a blog post for every week. I still don’t understand about “tags”. Actually there is little I understand. The whole [process of blogging seemed simple until I learned there are many aspects one has to understand about successful blogging. Help! What should I do? Joanna Kendall

You’ve come to the right place, though this is an odd post to ask. I recommend you start with Learn WordPress for a step-step bare bones approach to learning how to use WordPress and understand content organization and categories and tags. If you wish to further, check out my WordPress For Writers and Blog Exercises series for help. I’m starting a new WordPress educational series in January that might help as well.

This is not complicated, but you need to understand the basics of content organization. I hope this helps. Thanks.

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